Awww yeah. I believe that caring about the aesthetics of a system deployment is correlated to how much pride you take in your work. Ultimately, I understand why they think looks don't matter, but the aesthetics represent more than what meets the eye.

I think when it comes to server racks, or any electrical equipment in an industrial environment (my work), you are never going for the looks of the case or the hardware, but rather a clean installation. So things like cable management, panel layout, uniformity between racks and panels, etc.

Those are the things that are beautiful when you leave "consumer-space".